LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera, gold and silver on panel

Measurements:

21.65 in. (55.00 cm.) (height) by 68.78 in. (174.70 cm.) (width)

Literature:

P. Schubring, Cassoni, Leipzig, 1923, supplement volume, p. 5, no. 936, pl. XVII, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. A. McComb, ‘The Life and Works of Francesco di Giorgio’, Art Studies, Princeton, 1924, II, p. 20, pl. 19, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. T. Borenius, ‘Italian Cassone Paintings’, Apollo, London, 1926, III, pp. 132-133, no. 15, as‘Francesco di Giorgio’. A. Venturi, Studi dal Vero, Milan, 1929, pp. 87-88, fig. 52, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. P. Misciatelli, ‘Cassoni Senesi’, La Diana, 1929, IV, p. 124, pl. 25, as ‘school of Francesco di Giorgio’. S. Brinton, Francesco di Giorgio Martini of Siena, London, 1934, p. 33. R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1937, XVI, pp. 256-7, 286 and 292, fig. 138, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. A.S. Weller, Francesco di Giorgio 1439-1501, Chicago, 1943, pp. 122-123, fig. 42. F. Lugt, ‘Man and Angel’, Gazette des Beaux Arts, New York, 1944, XXV, p. 346, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. Handbook of the Collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Missouri, 1959, p. 262, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. C. del Bravo, ‘Liberale da Verona’, Paragone, 1960, CXXIX, p. 32, as ‘Liberale da Verona’. C. del Bravo, Liberale da Verona, Florence, 1967, pp. CXVIII-CXIX, as ‘Liberale da Verona’. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central and North Italian Schools, London and New York, 1968, I, p. 140, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. B.B. Fredericksen, The Cassone Paintings of Francesco di Giorgio, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1969, IV, pp. 23-26, pl. 12-13, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Massachusetts, 1972, pp. 74 and 589, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. C.M. Kaufmann, Catalogue of Foreign Paintings Before 1800 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973, p. 114, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. H.-J. Eberhardt, ‘Liberale da Verona’, Maestri della Pittura Veronese, Verona, 1974, p. 110. R. Toledano, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Milan, 1987, p. 153, no. A6, in ‘Appendice II: opere di erronea attribuzione’. K. Christiansen, L.B. Kanter and C.B. Strehlke, Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420-1500, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p. 325. E. Callman, Grove Dictionary of Art, under ‘Cassone’, VI, p. 4, pl. 5. G. Hughes, Renaissance Cassoni, Michigan, 1997, pp. 181-2, illustrated. L. Bellosi et. al., Francesco di Giorgio e il Rinascimento a Siena 1450-1500, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1993, pp. 228, 234 and 242-3, under no. 39, fig. 1.

Provenance:

(Possibly) Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. Marczell de Nemes, Budapest; his sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 13 November 1928 (=1st day), lot 15, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’. William Randolph Hearst, New York; Hammer Galleries, New York, 1-3 May 1941, p. 19, illustrated. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, inv. no. 41-9, 1941-1984, as ‘Francesco di Giorgio’, Property sold by Order of the University Trustees of the William Rockhill Nelson Trust, Kansas City; Sotheby’s, New York, 3 June 1987, lot 82, as ‘Workshop of Francesco di Giorgio’. Art Market, Florence, in 1998.